retitle 295568 properly escape - in manpage.
severity 295568 normal
thanks
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Ricky Ng-Adam wrote:
> Hello!
>
> --- Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Running `. tsocks on` as suggested by the man page spits out
> >
> > That's because it's ". tsocks -on", with a dash. Does this solve
> > your
> > problem? If yes, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thanks, it does solve the problem, but...
>
> 1) shouldn't the man page be corrected? I've just found out that this
> particular man page does not display the dash (-) on my system. It is
> there (if I copy-paste, I see it), but it is not displayed. I believe
> it is because my locale is UTF-8:
Ah, then that's probably a dash that is not properly encoded.
> 2) why should entering the wrong option kill the terminal? shouldn't
> this situation be trapped? Especially as the user will be unable to see
> any error output
That's what set -e and . <script> does. maybe it can be improved.
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